Professor Ivan Frollo was awarded the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award in Science and Technology

The Science and Technology Award 2019 in the Lifetime Achievement in Science and Technology category was awarded to Professor Ivan Frollo for his outstanding lifelong achievement in the field of Measurement Technology.

The prize for science and technology awarded by the Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, Martina Lubyová, is the most important honor in this field. The Minister awarded this prize to scientists who have made a special contribution to the development of science and technology in 2019. They are scientists who have been involved in life-long development in science, but also young people under 35 who are our hope for the future and teams in which scientists have jointly achieved outstanding success in science and technology development.

 

 

Prof. Ing. Ivan Frollo, DrSc., is a senior researcher and head of the Department of Imaging Methods of the Institute of Measurement Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Measurement Technology. He achieved the most significant results in areas such as measurement methods and instruments for biology, physiology, cardiac surgery and respirology, microcomputer-based electronic measuring instruments for physiology and tomographic methods and nuclear magnetic resonance systems with applications for physics and medicine.

He has long been engaged in magnetic resonance imaging methods – helium lung imaging, physics and hyperpolarization physics and methodology, and digital radiological systems. Through its scientific and research activities, it has a long-term impact on the development of measurement technology, especially with a focus on measurements in medical sciences.

Ivan Frollo (1939) comes from Prešov. In 1963 he graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava (Ing.), specializing in radioelectronics. Between 1963 and 1966 he completed his internal aspiration at the Institute of Measurement Theory of SAS. Since 1966 he has been working at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, first as an independent researcher and since 1985 as a senior researcher. From 1998 to 2006 he worked as the director of the Institute of Measurement Science SAS. At present, he is the head of the Department of Imaging Methods of the IMS SAS.

From 1977 to 1978, he completed a six-month study stay at the University of California, Berkeley, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and 15 other US universities. He completed a number of short-term stays at research centers in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Poland, Russia and the USA. He has participated and presented his lectures in many international scientific conferences.

In 1992 he defended his doctoral dissertation (DrSc.) On the topic: Measurement Methods and Systems for Medical Research. In 1993 he was habilitated as associate professor and in 1995 he was appointed a university professor in the field of Measurement Technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Slovak Technical University (FME STU) in Bratislava. He also worked for a long time at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of STU (FEI STU). In r. 1994 – 2004 lectured and led exercises for foreign students, subject: Medical Imaging Techniques, Principles and Instrumentation, to which he published scripts (1995). His further cooperation with the FME STU and FEI STU consists in leading students diploma theses, he is a member of the committees for state final examinations and for the defense of doctoral dissertations.

During his career he has achieved significant scientific results, which have been published in respected scientific journals. A total of 414 scientific publications, of which 112 in impacted international journals registered in the WOS and SCOPUS databases, with citations of 327, h-index = 10. He designed and implemented with his team 41 devices and devices that have found application in research and practice. Many of the results of his scientific work have been patented. He is the author of 22 patents. Its contribution is also significant in the educational process.

Professor Ivan Frollo is a member of several international and domestic scientific organizations, he is active in science management and also in national and international projects. He has been awarded several major awards, as e.g. Silver and Gold Andrej Stodola Plaque of SAS “For Merit in Technical Sciences” (1989 and 1999), Gold Medal of Johann Andrea von Segner ” on the 85th Anniversary of Metrology in Slovakia” (2004), SAS Medal for Support of Science (2005), Great Medal of St. Gorazd for scientific and educational activities awarded by the Minister of Education (2005), Gold Medal of SAS for “Lifelong Work in the Field of Science” (2009), SAS Award “For Popularization of Science” (2015).

 

Professor Ivan Frollo receives the Science and Technology Award 2019 from Minister Martina Lubyová  (7th November 2019)